> Richard Paul Waterman, PhD Practice Professor of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton SchoolResearch Interests:categorical data analysis, environmental statistics, likelihood methods About Richard Richard Paul Waterman is practice professor of statistics and data science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his BSc in Mathematics at Bristol University, his MSc in Environmental Resource Management at Salford University, and his PhD in Statistics at Penn State. He has taught at the Wharton School since 1993 and has won several teaching awards.